We had a quiet long weekend.  Oh, wait, it's Wednesday already!  Weekend's long gone. 

At any rate, I did not feel much like leaving the house and mini-pear had a little sniffly/scratchy throat thing happening.  As she was looking forward to day camp at the humane society this week, I thought maybe hanging around the house and resting up was a pretty good idea.  Mini-pear was not so sure.  She likes her running and jumping and climbing time at the park.  We managed to get a little of that in, but not for hours on end (as is her preference).  Our faux-Kapla blocks made an appearance, and that is always a good way to while away the hours.  We bought a set of 100 at IKEA a couple of years ago, and they are the coolest blocks ever.  Except now they've stopped carrying them, and if we wanted to add more to our collection, we'd have to buy the real Kapla blocks which are significantly more expensive ($45 for a 100 piece set, as opposed to $6 or thereabouts for the IKEA version).

So as I said, mini-pear is at camp all week, and I'd hoped to organize the house a little, find some way to manage the ever growing stacks of artwork and other mini-pear output, sort through some baby clothes, etc.  I'm doing a little tiny bit of that, but mostly I've been "ponderous", as Mr. Pear puts it.  I feel like I have so much on my mind, I might explode.  We're updating our home study for our adoption, and so I've been scheduling appointments and organizing paperwork.  It feels a little odd to be gathering all that information at the same time as I'm trying to reconfigure my prenatal care. 

That's where my "ponderous"ness comes in.  I'm compiling a list of questions to ask my new OB, but I'm also interviewing midwives and having a good long think about all my options.  So think-y!  I am not the type of person who enjoys this sort of decision making.  It overwhelms me, and being in a state of indecision wears at the old brain.  I sometimes find I rush the decision-making process, just so I can breathe a sigh of relief, "Well, that's all decided..."  I also don't have all the information I need yet.  I can't really decide until I actually meet the OB and see what he's got to say for himself, and I need to meet some midwives in person.  Not having enough information, and wanting to make a decision sooner rather than later is burning holes in my skull.  Patience is not a virtue I've spent much time cultivating.

I need a break from it all.  It's a little grey here this morning.  Perhaps a good day to knit in front of some deliciously bad television-streamed-over-the-internets.